tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69065258410456989672024-03-05T19:55:46.684-08:00Chona HomegrownA midwife mama's quilting and healing adventureChonaHomegrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245109599892319973noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6906525841045698967.post-38998979949940542892016-01-13T11:08:00.002-08:002016-01-13T12:44:49.226-08:00First sewing room throw-down of the year<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
So much going on in the world and I am fortunate to be able to escape to my sewing room for my therapy and craft in between the other crazy parts of my day. Quilting truly is my therapy in this world. </div>
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Another beautiful baby born to a very special family to ours. Late thursday night this little creature was born and I started on her quilt 12 hours later. Here it is finished and already delivered. It's 36" x 36" and stitched in the ditch through the whole star and then I did some ruler lines and did free motion feathery things all on my domestic sewing machine. I also use the extra strips from the star on the binding.</div>
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Some pictures of it in progress:</div>
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Even my semi-well-trained companion could notice that the points came out really well. It was one of those fun smooth quilts that just worked out, just like her smooth birth! Welcome to the world warrior-girl!</div>
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Then I got to quilting on Papy's Dresses, featuring pieces of my mother's dresses that she left me when she passed in 2002. It really is such a special quilt. The thing is that it is taking me forever because this truly is a one of a kind quilt and really my first real heirloom that feels so precious. So far I have just quilted down the ditches of the all the squares and half the stars. Still so much more to go. I still haven't decided where to go from there. It's a very challenging one. I am doing this one all on my domestic sewing machine also so far just with a ditch walking foot. This quilt has wool batting and deciding how to finish quilting it is coming soon. So far I'm considering doing some small all-over pattern over everything but the blue squares and dress stars. Maybe even try Angela Walter's traveling technique (I'll happily accept suggestions).</div>
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There are more pics of this quilt in progress at <a href="http://www.chonahomegrown.blogspot.com/2015/04/wednesday-already.html" target="_blank">this</a> blog post.</div>
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I started another 36" baby star quilt to consign at the Faber Arts Center. But the dogs are way sweeter to look at. Happy quilting everyone!</div>
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I did get some things done this last few months in addition to many many things non-quilt-related. I have been sewing at work with the clients and working on the <a href="https://themonumentquilt.org/about/" target="_blank">Monument Quilt</a>. I am currently quilting the first 4x4 quilt and we are working on piecing the second 4x4 too. It is a great honor to be creating pieces. The clients are especially excited that their pieces will be going to Washington DC.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7VdFkm6eJXeArjHzIlo-zGhsAS0_9j29AFnfwC5PGZaN9lHL67std2XrH6FSgbSdqDobMaD9XpJVsiVgsQ2be-6-ynLA17BCwhO-iohb37UEy2fyK2eBZYQwCwtiLD-J99J6uC-Qw0so/s640/blogger-image-1305317696.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7VdFkm6eJXeArjHzIlo-zGhsAS0_9j29AFnfwC5PGZaN9lHL67std2XrH6FSgbSdqDobMaD9XpJVsiVgsQ2be-6-ynLA17BCwhO-iohb37UEy2fyK2eBZYQwCwtiLD-J99J6uC-Qw0so/s640/blogger-image-1305317696.jpg"></a></div><br></div>
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I also finished and delivered two star quilts in honor of a nieces one year birthday. These quilts were part of her giveaway. My nieces middle name is Snow so this is her quilt given to her by her parents. </div>
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Speaking of snow this is what it looked like outside when I left work so I'm gonna do some stitchin' today on this snow day!</div>
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<br>ChonaHomegrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245109599892319973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6906525841045698967.post-44699432830186883932015-07-18T10:49:00.002-07:002015-07-18T10:49:43.988-07:00Modern Quilt Group Update: Week Six<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What an amazing six weeks that we have had as a group making quilts together! We ended up as a group of four and have met every wednesday evening this last June and July. <a href="http://www.chonahomegrown.blogspot.com/p/shapes-sampler-2015-simple-sew-along.html" target="_blank">2015 Shapes Sampler</a></div>
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instructions are just an outline of what we are working on. With nine pateches, log cabins, and half square triangles behind us, we got to designing our layout and doing some drafting this last week. Here are the three quilts that we are ending up with:</div>
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Just a few pics with my phone casue we have been too busy talking and sewing to be taking pictures! Next week we finish peicing our tops. We'll do a tutorial on diamonds and the basics of star quilts too. Almost there! </div>
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<br />ChonaHomegrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245109599892319973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6906525841045698967.post-2828355847290587272015-06-10T07:46:00.003-07:002015-06-10T07:46:52.222-07:00Spaña Modern Quilt Group: First meeting!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Here are a few pics from our first group last week. I lOVE the looms in the background. We are surrounded by weaving looms there becasue at the Fiber Arts Center that is their most common thing. We have a strong weaving tradition in our communities. I am not a weaver, just a quilter and a knitter. It really is a nice space to use for sewing groups. </div>
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We started the group because a few ladies from the community asked me to teach them how I make quilts. Instead of setting it up as a class, I rented the sewing room for us as a group to use. So now I am getting to sew with some old and dear friends and neighbors. We expect a few more to join us so we'll do some introductions and WIP's in a few weeks.<br />
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I set up the group to do a <a href="http://www.chonahomegrown.blogspot.com/p/shapes-sampler-2015-simple-sew-along.html" target="_blank">Shapes Sampler</a> together this summer. It's very very basic but the group will definately build some piecing skills and will quilt whatever they piece. This is a pic of the Shapes Sampler 2015 coming together:<br />
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We will be meeting each Wednesday evening in June and July so feel free to sew along with us!<br />
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I cannot believe that this happened! I have been wanting to try a long arm at home but of course they cost so much and a friend of the family is selling a simple Pfaff machine and frame for just a few hundred dollars so I'm giving it a test run! Now I looked it up and the reviews are that this only works really for small designs (4-6 inches) and straight lines because of the small throat size of the machine.<br />
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It's been awhile. I have dropped the ball on a few projects because I started a new part-time job at the local Domestic Violence shelter which is super rewarding work. I am actually doing a wonderful quilt project with the women that I work with. It's called the <a href="https://themonumentquilt.org/about/" target="_blank">Monument Quilt.</a> I look forward to reaching out to create opportunities for more survivors of male violence to make a square to contribute.<br />
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In the meantime I am gearing up to teach my very first quilting class! I rented the sewing room at our local <a href="http://www.evfac.org/" target="_blank">Fiber Arts Center</a> and have eight women signed up. I am doing a skills-based class with a lot of flexibility so that each participant can design a quilt with the blocks they complete in the eight weeks. One might just quilt a pillow. One might make a full bed quilt. You never know, especially when everyone is at different levels of experience. It's my first time so I will just have to see how it goes.<br />
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I am posting a page on the <a href="http://www.chonahomegrown.blogspot.com/p/shapes-sampler-2015-simple-sew-along.html">Shapes Sampler 2015</a> so that the participants can reference it during the class and beyond. Feel free to sew along with us this summer. I will be posting progress pics and instructions as we move along. First meeting is June 2nd.<br />
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Here's my Shapes Sampler so far. It covers squares, rectangles, half-square triangles, and diamonds. I added one piece in each set of blocks in the red fabric to show each shape for my son's kindergarten class. I'm thinking I'll count up each shape and piece the number and name of each shape around the border of the quilt. You'll see. :) There are several more shapes to add (60 degree triangles, hexies, circles) depending on how we move along as a group. I'll get a pic posted to update the page once the top is pieced.<br />
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<br />ChonaHomegrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245109599892319973noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6906525841045698967.post-37018380344750722962015-04-22T07:20:00.000-07:002015-04-22T07:20:56.057-07:00Wednesday Already?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="text-align: start;">Just a quick post this morning to link up. This was supposed to be a finish last last month so as you can see by flooding my projects I am very easily distracted! But I have been slowly working on Lola's Dresses, made up of several of my mother's old dresses used as the stars. The pattern is from Material Obsession 2. I blogged about it before and will link that up when I get back home. I printed some photos of her in some of the dresses for the back of the quilt. </span></div>
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Here is is getting basted.<br />
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This is before the top was even pieced just so you can see some of the fabrics.<br />
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<li>Did three more purple scrap paper pieced stars paper piece patterns from <a href="http://wombatquilts.com/">Wombat Quilts Paper Piecing Mondays</a></li>
<li>Received an amazing 64 log cabin blocks already done and fabric cut for at least 30-40 more! (my first time inheriting someone else hard work- awesome)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This was my cozy spot. On the dark side of the room but near the pressing room and because the door was open, I had the whole table to my self so I could paper piece. Plus I had a great view of the room and great company.<br />
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This beautiful quilt was worked on the entire retreat and now hangs in our State Capital at an art quilt show called Cultural Red that will be there through the summer. It really is beautiful.<br />
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Oh. I lied. I did take one and only one picture at the retreat this year. The food was Awesome!!</div>
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So back in my sewing room on the other days of the last month I created my first original paper piece pattern. This is what it looks like drawn. </div>
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And then I copied it, cut it up and sewed the block remembering to add the 1/4 seam allowance to the edge of every piece. This is what the block came out like.</div>
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And quilted and bound. I tried the matchstick which I would only do on a small piece like this cause it took a lot of passes.</div>
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I have one finish this month and that is my Brother's birthday scrap quilt.</div>
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And that's my catch up post. Happy spring everyone.<br />
<br />ChonaHomegrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245109599892319973noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6906525841045698967.post-79523442747142897262015-03-17T17:12:00.001-07:002015-03-18T00:42:05.060-07:00Block One for the Arcadia Ave. Quilt Along Done!<br />
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I signed up for the Arcadia Ave. Quilt Along at <a href="http://sassafras-lane.com/pages/arcadia-avenue-qal">sassafras lane</a> I'm playing a little catch-up and just got the first block done today! Its another foundation paper piece project (can you tell that I am completely addicted to paper piecing?) this time with hexagons. It's definitely a challenging color study for me. I usually don't do too much low volume and the outer triangles get very washed out with such low contrast to the white print background so I'm not sure if I love it yet. I wanted to go all the way to orange and use more saturated yellows and oranges.<br />
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Here's some pics of the block being constructed.<br />
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It's growing on me a little. I just might love it the way it is! I'll work on block two and see what happens with the colors I choose. I'm linking up with <a href="http://www.freshlypieced.com/">freshlypieced</a> for WIP Wednesday. Look forward to seeing all your great work.<br />
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<br />ChonaHomegrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245109599892319973noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6906525841045698967.post-9587542896059714402015-03-07T22:14:00.001-08:002015-03-07T22:31:23.563-08:00Steffi's Dresses for A Lovely Year of Finishes- March GoalMy goal for this month is to finish Steffi's Dresses. This is a quilt top that I started piecing two years ago with pieces of my mother's old dresses. When she died in 2002 I was left with all her beautiful custom made dresses that I grew up with her wearing that were all made with gorgeous batik fabrics from different countries in South East Asia. Here are some pictures of some of the piecing with the fabrics.<br />
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I am using a pattern from the book <a href="http://www.sarahfielke.com/19/material-obsession-two/">Material Obsession Two</a>. I have the borders to piece on still and then I can baste it. I had ordered some wool batting for it and the LQS just called me to let me know it came in so I figured I might as well jump into the deep end and and make the commitment to finish this very special quilt. I am hoping if it is at all possible I will scan and post a few pictures of my mother wearing some of these dresses as well.<br />
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<br />ChonaHomegrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245109599892319973noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6906525841045698967.post-61748573419801978692015-03-07T15:11:00.002-08:002015-03-07T15:18:13.423-08:00Sew My Stash 2015: Precuts Party<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here it is. My one and only ever jelly roll quilt top. This is my first time making a quilt with precut fabric and all from the same line/designer/company. I bought the jelly roll from a LQS about five years ago or so. I guess we could probably get a good idea from the fabric line so if you recognize it chime in. It was a Moda Jellyroll. I used a pattern called Floral Bouquet from a book appropriately called Jelly Roll Quilts. I followed the pattern exactly.<br />
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The funny thing about this particular jelly roll is that I had taken it apart and integrated it into my scrap stash because it had sat around for so many years and although I had made plans for them a few times, I just never got excited about doing a fabric coordinated quilt. I eventually put them all back together because I decided I wanted to see what they looked like together on a quilt top. I do like the muted colors. I wonder if I'll end up ever getting another jelly roll and if it would take another five years to complete a top with?</div>
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I actually stared sewing my stash on my own and started on this one just this month but I only found this link-up last night! But it just so happens I was ready to piece the rows and had the border ready to go. Good luck to everyone in the <a href="http://www.projectleasa.com/sewmystash2015-precuts-party/">Sew My Stass 2015: Precuts Party!</a> over at Project Leasa!<br />
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<br />ChonaHomegrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245109599892319973noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6906525841045698967.post-33679259182750241902015-03-04T12:26:00.001-08:002015-03-04T12:38:46.609-08:00Work in Progress: No Nukes Quilt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My work in progress this week my husband's No Nukes quilt that I have been working on for a couple years now. <span style="text-align: center;">From my living room in the winter when the leaves are gone, I can see the Los Alamos National Laboratory where the nuclear bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were made. The story of Sadako is my inspiration for sewing 1000 peace cranes. Please check out my peace crane page to read Sadako's story.</span><br />
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45 of the cranes I have sewn so far are in this quilt that I am making my husband for his 50th birthday! I finally basted it with wool batting and started quilting. First I stitched in the ditch around each peace crane and around the letters. Now I am doing an echo around each crane. I have no idea what I'll quilt next so I'm still figuring it out.<br />
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This is the day I basted it and my sweet dog Aiko.</div>
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This is loosely what it looked like on the design wall last year.</div>
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I am very excited to finish this one and so is my husband!</div>
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<br />ChonaHomegrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245109599892319973noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6906525841045698967.post-14552566590782176642015-03-01T11:42:00.001-08:002015-03-01T14:39:54.384-08:00First 2015 Finishes!I got back in my sewing room over Christmas break and haven't left since! I have three finishes to share. First is the raffle quilt for the kids Montessori Charter School PTA. We are raising money to build the kids a playground at their new building which right now has no outdoor spaces yet for the kids. I am proud to say that the raffle was very successful.<br />
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My star quilts have become very popular and I have five orders for star quilts between now and October already which is very exciting for me! I make them really simple and actually the star is strip pieced so it goes pretty quick really because I am not doing appliqué or other settings, just modern quilting. I free motion quilted this one with spirals on my home machine.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">This one next is our Pizza Box Challenge with the Northern New Mexico Quilt Guild. We chose fabrics and put them in a pizza box and our boxes were distributed each month to a different quilter who made a block with your fabric. At the end of the year we get our box back and have 12 beautifully pieced blocks made with your selected fabrics. It is challenging for sure to use other people's fabrics but this challenge is meant to be a chance to showcase your skills so you do get to have some beautiful work from other amazing quilters. My daughter who was 11 at the time chose the fabrics with me and helped me make the blocks for the pizza boxes that came through our sewing room each month and also helped me make some extras with our own fabric along the way so we had enough to make her a sweet bed quilt which I am sure she will be taking with her to college. This one is free motion quilted with paisleys edge to edge.</span></div>
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Shortly after my last post, a super typhoon hit my mother's homeland of the Philippines. There was a need for midwives just like myself who were trained in assisting childbirth without technology in an out of hospital environment. I did two one-month trips, the first being only three weeks after the typhoon and I spent Christmas and New Years away from my children. The second was during the month of March. I spent my time there helping deliver babies, averaging 3 births a day including breeches and twins! After my trips to the Philippines, I came home exhausted and emotionally vulnerable and then and our family (of six) moved into a new home and it took a few months to get settled. </div>
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One Sunday in early June, we received a call for my daughter's best friend. She was told that morning that her older brother had been shot and killed by the local police department because they mistakenly believed he was armed. I am broken-hearted over what is happening to our youth. His name was Victor Villalpondo and he was 16 years old. </div>
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Only a week later, a dear friend who was like a mother to my husband ended up in the long-term ICU. She just passed away last Tuesday. She was a 67 year old woman who had lived 48 of them as a quadriplegic, and the last 7 months intubated with a tracheotomy tube and on a ventilator. For the last seven months I participated closely in supporting her family and caring for her in the hospital and at home. She passed on last week and I've been sewing ever since. Its keeping me company while I get used to not having Linda's physical comfort so on my mind. We will be burying her this morning. Her name was Linda Pedro.</div>
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Making quilts has been such a comfort to get back to. I have been making quilts since my daughter was born in 2001. Then my kids got bigger and so my quilts got bigger! </div>
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I finally got my sewing room up and running again after a family move back to our old home after three years in town. I started sewing again during the kids school break and haven't stopped since. I put together our Pizza Box Challenge blocks, made some drawstring bags this time quilted and Pendelton.<br />
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I also set out to finally mend our oldest son's bed quilt. This was the first bed size quilt I made in 2004 when our oldest was 10. He's been missing it since I took it from him last year to repair some worn areas and replace the frayed binding. He finally got to take it home with him when he left after Christmas along with his new peace crane pillow.<br />
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I had to sort through so many unfinished projects and reconstruct some of the cut fabric and pieces to make sense of what I was up to in my old sewing room. I ended up with a table of things to finish and got to work mostly finishing up the quickest stuff first. Pillows and pillowcases, bags, etc. Now I am finally back to piecing, quilting, and designing. I am working on Mateo's No Nukes quilt and I started a foundation paper piecing flow that I am getting a little addicted to. Plus once you get your scraps color-sorted and accessible it's hard not to start a new one right away!<br />
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I finally finished the not-so-beautiful beauty called Bear Grease! </div>
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These Bear's Claw blocks came together when I was practicing half-square triangles and the fabric store didn't have anymore of the green chambray that I used. So I set them in a black and white chambray and I didn't really love it. So I pressed the top and put it away. Fast forward several months when I am ready to rent the long arm and I needed to quilt a top that I wasn't too attached to. The Bear's Paws were perfect. I could go to town FMQ on the long arm for the first time and I wasn't going to cry if it wasn't "perfect". </div>
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It also happened that many things were happening in the weeks that I was finishing this quilt and my husband, who is the Bear medicine in our family, is always telling me to slap on some bear grease. In other words, stay protected and don't let it get to you. I sure needed bear grease this last month and so the cozy quilt Bear Grease was born.</div>
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It was long armed on a Gammill that I rented at a LQS a couple hours from home. My husband wanted leaves and berries on the quilting because that is what bears eat. I was pretty surprised at how good the quilting looks for being my first time. And it is a sweet family quilt that now lives on the couch.<br />
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I finally launched my Etsy store <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/ChonaHomegrown">Chona Homegrown</a> . I sold my first quilt last week and already have one commissioned for December. It's nice to feel my quilting is appreciated by others!</div>
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I finished up the scrap baby quilt I have been working on. I sample FMQ the whole thing and tried some new things like feathers in the border. Yes it was difficult at first. It was eventually possible. I just hope I keep getting better with practice.</div>
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I decided to jump in and do a Swoon quilt. I have four of the nine blocks done and I am still deciding if I will piece it as the full 85" square bed quilt or only five blocks on a bed quilt so that I can use four of them for big Swoon couch pillows cause they would look so good in the living room and the couch is in a sad state.<br />
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I got a couple more Heather Ross baby hexie quilts in the works for SF Art Market and my Etsy store.<br />
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I have been wanting to do a New York Beauty for many years so I finally started piecing the points with scraps. This one is going to be awhile.<br />
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And as always, there are a stack of Peace Cranes by the machine ready to be pieced into my first Peace Crane bed quilt. This one is a keeper for Mateo. Gotta be.<br />
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Just as I was about to post this my husband stopped by the house and I was cleaning the living room and he asked me "what quilt are you basting?" because he knows that I usually only ever clean so that I can use the floor or space for quilting! We laughed a bunch about that just now. I figured you'd relate.</div>
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I free-motion quilted for the first time on the long arm and this is the result so far. I completely went into it without any attachment to the outcome and so far and I can't believe how nice it looks! Since its a bear's claw quilt, my husband suggested leaves and berries cause its what they eat. Really cool to learn to quilt on the long arm. I didn't finish which is a bummer to have to take it off the frame but I am going to do some walking foot quilting on the bear's claws themselves, then go back down and reload it upside own and go through the whole thing one more time to be done. How fun is quilting?!</div>
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This is the result of the scrap busting I did last week. I ended up with 50 12 1/2 inch slabs and used most for this full size top. I used a cool green chambray for the sashing. (Thanks to a blog inspiration for this design, which I cannot now find- If you have an idea, pls lmk cause I'd love to credit) I think this one might get basted with wool batting and get given to my 20 year old who has chosen to rent out a basement for his room this winter!<br />
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Another little top I made with some scrap slabs that I made last week.<br />
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And last but not least... I am having a Jackie Gering week! I took her hexie class a few weeks ago and this is the result of that class. A very cute hexie baby quilt with some Healther Ross prints which always melt me cause they're so cute.</div>
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And a close up of the quilting that I did with the walking foot.<br />
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I also started doing Jackie's Craftsy class and ended up with this Love Knot top made with "stitch and flip" triangles. I guess now with these new tops I really need to get basting!<br />
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ChonaHomegrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245109599892319973noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6906525841045698967.post-34605401813781357412013-09-19T16:40:00.000-07:002013-09-19T16:54:58.625-07:00Arts in the Schools!I just got home from my fourth full day in the last two weeks teaching lower and upper elementary kids! Something I have not done for a very long time. And this time I get to bring my sewing machine! I was invited by the Arts Director to be a teaching artist this year for Moving Arts Española and La Tierra Charter School. I have known many amazing folks to have this honor over the years and now it is my turn! How cool is that?<br />
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I can't really post pics of all the kids cause their folks might not like that without permission but here are some pics of some of us and our piles of fabric that we played with. Each child is making a personal flag with cotton fabric and thread to represent who they are. What an amazing experience this has been so far. Thank you La Tierra Charter School!<br />
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I brought some quilts in to show the kids. I showed them diamonds, squares, rectangles, half-square triangles, 60 degree triangles, and hexagons!</div>
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Phew. Wednesday. First off I have to show off the finished Morning Star Quilt for the La Tierra Charter School Raffle. This is my second FMQ and for this one I did all over swirls. I am getting the hang of it. My stitches are finally looking regular! It feels SO liberating to FMQ at home.</div>
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Lots of things going on here in my corner of the world. I LOVE both the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Material-Obsession-Kathy-Doughty-Fielke/dp/1741964105">Material Obsession</a> books and have done several quilts from them. Here is a 60 degree triangle quilt from the second book getting ready for piecing. The top and back are done and ready to be basted. I put my favorite grasshopper print on the back. Yummy cute for snuggling. :)</div>
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I have made almost 40 peace cranes this week and did my first crazy pieced scrap crane for Mateo who of course loves it. Doing all these cranes this month really made my think a lot about old friends, hard work, and relentless prayers. No Nukes.<br />
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87 peace cranes sewn so far. When I'm sewing cranes I am thinking of the Hibakusha (survivors and decedents of survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) and I think of my dear friend and mentor, Corbin Harney. I also think about my dear big hearted husband. <3</div>
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A complete scrap bust happened here this week because of some rearranging that happened. Here's what the floor looked like for a while.<br />
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I ended up building over 50 12 1/2 slabs that are ready to be pieced with some solid sashing etc. Feels so good to use up all those little precious and not cheap pieces of fabric!</div>
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Last but not least is a celebratory photo of the birth room that we built. As a midwife a birth center is something I always wish we had in our community here like they have in Taos. Anyway- we don't have money to build a birth center right now but we all rallied together and renovated a room in the clinic of a local midwifery practice. It turned out so beautiful and I put morning star quilts on the wall and on the bed. I am so excited for mamas to use the space and so proud!<br />
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K. Well. That was my 20 minutes on-line today. Nice to see all your beautiful work out there. Please keep the inspiration coming. Happy quilting!ChonaHomegrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245109599892319973noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6906525841045698967.post-35675105521342633662013-08-30T09:49:00.002-07:002013-08-30T18:06:10.724-07:00Finish it up Friday! We we have a big grand opening at our clinic tomorrow and on top of that, last sunday Mateo and I got caught in the rain on the bike so I am very under the weather this week. I stayed home resting and of course, sewing!<br />
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I finished up the tutorial that I have been wanting to put together and finished up two Star quilts that I have been working on. The red and Blue one is for a raffle for the Doula program and the grey one I made for the tutorial so it might go to the school raffle in a few weeks. Here's a pic of the two together. Please see the tutorial if you would like to see the process pics.<br />
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I have one more WIP that I just didn't quite finish. This sweet Rainbow Morning Star quilt is only the second bed size quilt that I have free motion quilted at home! I'm so excited that I tried a new all-over pattern and it looks decent! It was getting dark but I still just had to update.</div>
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Anyway- so liberated by the idea that I can get good enough to FMQ my own quilts. My new sewing set up helps so much with the clamps and the set-in machine. Well, off to sew the binding on this star then go over to the clinic and help get the birth room ready for our open house tomorrow! Have a great weekend quilty folks!</div>
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So this is my first tutorial so I hope that I put it together in a way that is helpful. I love making lone Star Quilts. I make them in all sizes, with extra diamonds, in solids and prints. I also make Lone Stars right out of my scrap bins. Those made from scrap strips come out the best because I have to work with the fabric that I have and I end up putting them together differently than if I had more fabric to choose from! I have several strip bundles that I sort for Lone Stars from the scrap bins!<br />
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The first thing you need to do is decide how big you want your Star to be. The size of the star itself is determined by two things: 1) The size of the strips you cut, and the number of diamonds in the star. For this tutorial, I cut 2 inch strips and I chose 11 colors. This Star will end up being about 43-44 inches point to point. The number of colors or fabrics has to be an odd number to create the diamond.<br />
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When you are preparing your strips you will need one strip of the first, two strips of the second, three strips of the third, four strips of the fourth, five strips of the fifth fabric, six of the center fabric and then decrease down by one from there so five strips of the seventh, four strips of the eighth fabric, three of the ninth, two of the tenth, and one of the eleventh. Here you can see that I have my strips laid out. Remember that the center fabric has the most strips but is not the center of the star. The center fabric (the one with the most strips) actually ends up to be the largest ring. The color/fabric with just one strip will be the point of your diamond making either the center or the points of the star, depending on how you piece it. That took me awhile to remember where the fabrics actually get placed.<br />
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Then the next thing that you will do is create six piles of strips starting the first through the sixth, then the second through the seventh, then the third through the eighth, then the fourth through the ninth, the fifth through the tenth and lastly the sixth through the eleventh.<br />
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Sew them together with 1/4" seam allowance.<br />
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Press each one very well because you don't get to press again until after you put the background fabric in the corners of the Star because of how delicate the bias cuts are on the diamonds. When you press, alternate directions on each set. So press towards the first fabric then the next press towards the last fabric and alternate that way so that your seams sit nicely.<br />
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After you press these strips very well, it is time to cut again. You are going to cut at a 45 degree angle at two inch widths. You need to have at least eight because we are making an eight pointed star. When you cut you'll see that you will have more than eight. I just cut them all and save the extras for a scrappy star or binding later.<br />
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Then after you have cut all six strip sets at least into eight 2 inch 45 degree strips, then you are ready to pull one of each six strips to create your diamond.<br />
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When you do sew the strips together to make the diamonds, you will have to be careful to allow for the 1/4 inch that it needs to line up the seams. So its hard to see in the pic but there is a quarter inch between the seams.<br />
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It is much easier to do when the allowance happens to be pressed towards the seam you're matching up but that only happens some of the time.<br />
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So here is what I ended up with- eight beautiful diamonds ready to complete a lone Star!<br />
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My diamonds stacked at the machine ready to get assembled.<br />
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When you put the diamonds together, you line up the seams exactly to each other.<br />
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I will add more in a bit to finish explaining how I do the Y seams and cut the background squares and triangles. You can do this same process with 5, 7, 9, 11, or 13 (or any odd number) fabrics/colors. You can also cut your strips to be different widths that will change the size of the diamonds. But then when you go to cut the strip sets, you will cut them at 45 degrees at whatever width you chose. You can also email me at chonahomegrown@gmail.com if you have any questions.<br />
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Here is the completed top</div>
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And getting quilted</div>
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Close up of the quilting. It was the first time that I did an all-over pattern on a Star.</div>
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Just to show you how you can size your star- here's another I finished today that measures 43 1/2 inch square<br />
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And here is a pic with the two together so that you can see how the size is determined by the number and width of the diamonds. The grey star is 11 fabrics at 2 inch widths and the red and blue star is 7 fabrics cut at 2 1/2 inch widths but they are similar in size.<br />
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For another example of sizing- this star was done with 7 fabrics and cut at 1 1/2 inch widths and ended up being a 23 in square</div>
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This is the Raffle Quilt for La Tierra Montessori. After the strips were pieced and sitting around the sewing room for months, I finally cut and pieced the diamonds and did the Y seams this morning. I went around about the background and used a dark grey that wound up looking beautiful!</div>
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This is what it looked like for months when the strips were just hanging around.</div>
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This little Lone Star quilt is for the raffle at the Gathering for Mother Earth this year for the Doula Program. Both these raffle lovelies are getting basted today.</div>
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And these are the lunchbags that I made for the kids this year</div>
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I also chose the colors for the Baby lone star that I am making for Oren and Vanessa who are 31 weeks pregnant so I better keep moving on this one. I chose super saturated rainbow colors just like she asked for! </div>
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And lastly, Nilah's Flower Fairy Quilt went out the door (without a pic sadly cause the kids were late for the bus) this morning for Nilah's 6th birthday!</div>
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<br />ChonaHomegrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245109599892319973noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6906525841045698967.post-20514372174354655982013-08-26T06:39:00.000-07:002013-08-30T19:53:00.572-07:00Jose's GiveawayThis is a little show and tell of a couple of the gifts I created for Ze's birthday meeting. Ze asked to have a tipi meeting for his 8th birthday. His Uncle Victor ran the meeting for him and this is Victor's Morning Star Quilt:<br />
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This is Carrie's cushion.<br />
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The stack of giveaway piling up the this week. I ended up not being able to go in so Malaya did the giveaway for me which was really sweet.<br />
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It was a super beautiful meeting and Jose got a super special birthday prayer. Thank you everyone who supported us!</div>
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It has been a long while since I have even logged on to this blog. My life has been filled with work and kids and summertime fun and I am happy to say that it is winding down. School clothes and shoes are gotten, Bus routes are figured out, and haircuts are the last thing left to do before the kids are ready to go again.</div>
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This summer, my dear old friend became a mom. I have known my fiend Sarah Jane for over twenty years. We have lived and traveled together, walked across the country together, and joined the circus together. Now we are moms together. Even though she lives only 30 minutes, we don't see each other much and I don't expect that to change even with the kids. But regardless, my heart is so warmed knowing how much she wanted to be a mother. After losing pregnancies and partners and all the ups and downs of queer pregnancy and adoption, her little one is in her arms finally at 42 years old. Single mom by choice and I have never seen her happier. This was one of the most gratifying quilts I have gotten to make yet.</div>
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<br />ChonaHomegrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245109599892319973noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6906525841045698967.post-58731327207326613792013-04-17T08:36:00.001-07:002013-08-29T23:02:40.456-07:00Work in Progress Wednesday!I'm still getting my sewing room back together after a weekend at the Northern New Mexico Quilt Guild retreat. It was an amazing weekend with 50 quilters in one room! I never had so much fun sewing with other quilters. Of course the encouragement, teachings, and inspiration was amazing.<br />
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For our community service sewing we made 100 pillow cases. I loved learning the simple "hot dog" pattern and how to do french seams!<br />
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I brought with me to the retreat a basket of scraps that I had put together to make stars and feathers. Here are a few of the lone stars and feathers I made.<br />
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I did a peace crane (#44!) also for my pizza box. Here is one the I made for our teenage son. Magic mushrooms. Not far from the tree.<br />
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I am also making a beautiful Guatalupana bag for one of our Board Members.<br />
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And the most amazing WIP this week is Steffi's Dresses which I pieced all but the border. I am thinking of using something like this dark blue floral print.</div>
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It's just going to be pics today because I'm not in the mood to be on the computer. I have crazily decided that I want to do blankets for the kid's teachers and also that I want to talk to the Fiber Arts Center about doing a baby quilt class there. Anyway- That's all I got for the internet today. Going to sew, clean, and work in the yard on this beautiful morning.<br />
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Wednesday again already! Well I usually get to spend everyday sewing but this week we are submitting a Federal grant proposal so those always take a bunch of my time. But it will be submitted by friday and then my reward is that it's the <a href="http://www.nnmqg.org/">Northern New Mexico Quilt Guild</a> Retreat is this weekend so from 8am Friday to 4pm Sunday, the ladies will be sewing! I reserved myself a table for the whole weekend and plan to take lots of pics too. Its my first time. Fun.</div>
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So last week I ended up spending the rest of Wednesday digging around my sewing room. Lots of projects going on around here. </div>
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This pic is of the next Morning Star blanket that I'm doing for Kayt and Victor. Kayt came over and chose batiks for her star and brought me lavender solid for the background. Not what I would have chosen but she's sure it will look great so I'm trusting her and its her blanket. It's looking so beautiful so far and I haven't worked with modern batiks in awhile so its nice to be immersed in them for a bit.</div>
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Last week I talked about the blanket that I'm making with all my Mother's batik dresses. Here is a close-up of two of the stars and the new fabrics I chose for the blanket. A very special blanket for me.<br />
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These are the next feathers that I will put together. I am always making feathers for blankets and pillows and bags so I bundle my scraps every once in awhile to make feathers. The next pic is of some of the scrap bundles I made to become feathers or stars.</div>
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What I did this weekend was a couple bags. I was working on Malaya's mustache pillow but it wasn't coming together. Then I got this GREAT book called the Bag Making Bible by <a href="http://u-handbag.com/">Lisa Lam</a> which is an amazing tutorial! Here's what Malaya's fabric became instead of a pillow.</div>
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The original pattern called for fusible fleece and interfacing so I did a second bag for myself but this time I quilted both layers and added four pockets. I also did the binding a little differently and double-layered the handles. Love.<br />
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Of course I did a few Peace Cranes also. Here's a pillow with the 42nd Peace Crane. I added a little tag detail to this one with a piece of ribbon. </div>
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And last share today is the beloved Naruto headband. So easy to please.<br />
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I'm packed and ready to go to the sewing retreat. Now off to get that grant done first. Peace to you and all you love... </div>
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